Selected Works of Hong Qian

Author: Chen Lai, edited by Hong Qian
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Hong Qian, also known as Hong Qian, styled Shoushi. His ancestral home is in She County, Anhui. Born in Fujian in 1909, he studied law at the preparatory department of Southeast University. During his time there, he published an article discussing Wang Yangming in Xueheng. Kang Youwei, upon reading it, found him to have great philosophical talent and thus invited him to meet at the Shanghai Yushuyuan. He recommended that Hong Qian study under Liang Qichao. Later, Liang Qichao introduced him to the Imperial University of Tokyo in Japan, where he studied under the authority Yüno Tetsujin. However, due to illness, he stayed in Japan for only six months before returning home. After returning, he attended the preparatory department of the National College of Chinese Studies at Tsinghua University for a year, receiving careful guidance from Liang Qichao and Liang Tingcan. Hong Qian's main works were initially written and published in German or English, then translated into Chinese. This was partly because Chinese translations were easier to find, while the original texts were harder to locate. Moreover, the original texts allowed readers to better understand his academic contributions. Therefore, we have included the most important several foreign-language articles in their original form, along with corresponding translations.